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{geni:about_me} Quellen:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~eilandfamily/html/fam106536.htm,
http://www.fivay.org/pasco2e.html:
FRIEDA MARIE (BOLLING) EILAND (1884-1981) chose the name "Elfers" for the post office which was established on Dec. 14, 1909, apparently naming it for her grandfather, whose last name was Elfers. A postal history source lists herhusband Levi Daniel Eiland as the first postmaster of Elfers, but in a 2001 letter, Elizabeth "Beth" Eiland Bedenbaugh, a daughter, wrote: "My mom was the post mistress (my dad was occupied with a job with J. M. Mitchell there inElfers). The post office was new and mom was asked to give the town and post office a name. She chose Elfers because that was her mother's maiden name." In a 1961 article about Rev. Marvin J. Eiland, a son of Frieda, John Parkes wrote, "The town of Elfers was named for Rev. Eiland's great-grandfather." In an April 1978 interview, Mrs. J. M. Mitchell recalled that Mrs. Frieda Eiland named the post office for "a dear uncle of hers whose last name was Elfers." (This is probably not correct.) Frieda Marie Bolling was born July 24, 1884, in Louisville, Ky. After the death of her father in 1889, she moved with her mother and a brother to Apopka, Florida. On July 29, 1903, she married Levi Daniel Eiland at the home of her mother in Apopka. She died on Sept. 19, 1981, in Deland. The father of Frieda Marie Bolling was Gottlieb Frederick Bolling, who died in 1889. The maiden name of the mother of Frieda Marie Bollingwas Maria Elfers; she died in Tampa in 1915. [Jon James and Terri Allen provided information for this and the preceding entry.]
Children included:
* Ruby, who was in the first graduating class of Gulf High School in 1924 and subsequently taught at the Seven Springs school. She married Rev. Delbert Vincent Underwood (1910-1999). Children included Frieda Marie, Marlene (Pope), Mary (Kreft), Martha (Stephens).
* illegible
* Frederick, a member of the GHS Class of 1928, m. Metta Hamilton (GHS '29). They later lived in Jacksonville.
* Elizabeth
* Archie G., living in Inglis in 2006
* Marvin Jones, born at their Seven Springs home on April 20, 1922. Rev. Marvin Jones Eiland became pastor of Curlew Baptist Church. In 2006 he and his wife were living at Inglis.
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/ViewStory.aspx?tid=13498255&pid=-58586509&oid=565146f3-f6ff-43cd-81af-c504f433e55b&pg=32787:
"When my grandfather operated a store in Elfers, Florida he opened the first Post Office, and is listed as the first Post Master of Elfers. According to the information I got from Myrtl Burnside (Hunt), there was a contest for thenaming of the town. My grandmother entered Elfers, which was her mothers' maiden name, and it was was chosen. My grandmother ran the post office, while my grandfather operated the store. There have been incorrect statements asto how Elfers got it's name. This is the true story of Elfers naming, which was told to me by Myrtl Burnside Hunt, who was my grandfathers' niece. My mother, Ruby Marie Eiland (Underwood), also told me many times that Elfers wasnamed after my great grandmother, Maria Elfers (Bolling)." Martha Stephens
Historic markers:
http://www.fivay.org/markers/elfers.html
http://www.fivay.org/markers/pasco.jpg
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